Posted by RobertDavid on July 7, 2006, at 2:29:14
In reply to Re: 3 months on EMSAM - My take on it, posted by ZeitGuest on July 2, 2006, at 3:41:21
> So, Robert, I'm wondering whether Klonopin at your optimal dose affects you as Prozac early on affected me--i.e., not just dampening your social fear response, but actually enhancing your cognative social skills, i.e., "quickness of thought," word recall, verbal fluency, mental elasticity, etc.
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Hmmm. For me, klonopin just made the fear go away, it's just gone. I still have normal anxiety that I think anyone would in some social situations which is good as i don't want to just be knumb to the world. Hard to explain, I can just say that I think this is how I would feel without SAD.You mentioned you felt a little out of it at a small dose. But that goes away with time, but the anti anxiety benfefits don't, they've lasted over 12 years for me at the same dose (2mgs). To treat SAD the key is to get up to a high enough dose and take it daily (usually 1 to 4mgs). Just go up slowly and expect to feel a little out of it/sedated for a week or two each time you go up.
I believe if you can find your right dose you have a high probability of ridding yourself of the majority if not all your social anxiety with klonopin alone. I don't think EMSAM is the answer for SAD other that to be taken with a benzo or other med to help some improve mood. Otherwise you might try klonopin and provigil (klonopin at night, provigil in the morning). I do know that benzos like klonopin work on GABA but all of them in different ways.
If your interested in that part, do some google searches on klonopin and GABA and you'll get a ton of info. Anyway, that's just my take on it, everyone is different, but if I were a doctor (which I'm not) and if a patient failed to respond to SSRI's for SAD (most do), I'd go straight to klonopin as my first try and keep them there till they got to a theraptuic dose as long as there weren't sever side effects that made it impossible. Just my 2 cents worth. Good luck!
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